A salt or ester of chloroacetic acid, containing both chlorine and an acetate group.
From chloro- (chlorine) + acetate (acetic acid salt), combining the halogen with the common carboxylic acid salt.
Chloroacetates are industrial workhorses used in making dyes, pharmaceuticals, and herbicides—compounds so useful that they've become invisible parts of everyday products from medicines to weed killers.
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